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  • The sea between

    The sea between

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    « In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition…

  • The size of longing

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    On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment

  • The coldest, cleanest water in Europe

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    Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?

  • How to people a landscape

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    On Cyril Schäublin’s Unrueh (2022), cinema & scale. « No other film has so resized me. »

  • An axe to grind should make you sharper

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    Forensic Architecture charts state-organized crimes, genocide and other disasters in three dimensions. « Flat maps can’t convey the politics of water and shit. »

  • The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard Glissant

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    An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of…

  • The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden

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    A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

  • Planes, tanks & automobiles

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    You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.

  • Borderland

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    The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of…

  • Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimable

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    On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.

  • Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow

    Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow

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    Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.

  • VOID FILL

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    On multinational packaging systems, « inflated fictions of transparency », desire and fulfillment.